Haha! well I don't mean to discount your experiences and I personally never had a chance to own a hardware Q rackmount/keyboard myself. But I've owned the MicroQ twice, have listened to a ridiculous amount of sound examples of the Q and MicroQ, and am particularly fond of a certain dance studio that heavily uses a MicroQ. So I'm pretty familiar with the sound. Whenever I look up sound examples of the Q, for example some simple supersaws, I can find examples of the MicroQ creating the exact same sound. There's undoubtedly some things that the Q can do that the MicroQ can't simply because it has certain features or modulations sources that the MicroQ doesn't, but I'm referring to depth and the sound-engine. In that regard, I've never believed that the MicroQ was 'thinner, flatter' or any descriptive that would mean it's cut down on quality.

Ohh, that makes sense! in this era of multi-core processing, I hope that synths with multi-chips can be pulled off. Looking forward to seeing more!

 

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Is there any way to make it friends with PoCo?) That would be huge relief to cpu

 

for all anyone knows, maybe a single-chip DSP synth like the Virus C or MicroQ is really easy on the CPU. Or not. The only way to know for sure is to try, use them in productions, and then see how the synths with more chips behave.

Looking at u-he Diva, it offers Multicore Support where the voices are distributed across the CPU, so that's something that could be looked into. Diva also "Accuracy" parameters where the quality of the sound will vary depending on how fast your computer is. At the lowest "Draft" setting, it's very CPU setting, but with rough FM, weak resonance, and poor filters. At the highest "Divine" setting, everything is pristine and analog sounding. A recommendation if you have a slower computer would be to track using the "Draft" setting and then bounce everything down in "Divine".

If it turns out that the DSP synths, even a single-chip one like the Virus C, are very weighty than this is another idea. But it might be that they are generally more CPU friendly than it seems. The only way to know for sure how intense they are is to finish and use them .

 

Sorry 8bits, somehow i missed the alert on your quote.
Well they are indeed too clean indeed but that's actually good because you want fidelity in what you capture.
I presume, what you really need might be a 500 preamp rather than AD.
There is where i see your million dollars idea shine.

I used to work with an Apogee Rosetta back in days with a Big Ben clock. This one had a very nice soft clip button if you remember.
I could see some use in mastering but abusing rec signals, i don't know how much of gain one some might have.
I would prefer a Chandler Limited TG 2 500 for this warmth and stereo separation and my inputs super clean and accurate.

I guess it's a matter of taste afterall...


Sorry Off topic guys

 

I can't wait for this super VSTi!!!!

 

Emulation update: Finally, after weeks of debugging and bug hunting, the JIT / dynamic recompiler is taking its first baby steps and generates valid audio

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/831849708909625354/855946248788115466/JITemu_IndiArp_BC.wav

 

Emulation update: VST plugin runs in real time.

Some demos running on an i7 4790k (Virus C):
https://dbree.org/v/cd8dfd
https://dbree.org/v/29660d
https://dbree.org/v/cfacb4
https://dbree.org/v/e4d9f9

 

This is great!! great job everyone!!

so what happens next?

also, I'm hearing some crackles at the end of some of the clips. Is it from the conversion or are there more CPU kinks to work out?

 

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This is being resolved as we speak, lots more optimisations to be done, it gets faster everyday

 

What are your current goals ? Optimisation only ?

 

Currently our goal is to get the emulator running fast enough to run the Virus C ROM without any issues. Some machines would already be able to run it perfectly but we want to get it working for lower end processors too

Once we have it fast enough then it will be time to incorporate the GUI and release a BETA version

(Maybe the first BETA versions will come headless without a GUI) I’m not sure what the plan is yet

 

this thread is GOLD

 

especially since if it is a legit emulation, theoretically one of the many existing editors should work

 

Already tried and tested

https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/2021/07/01/163/

 

Breakthrough: As the Virus C is clocked at 136MHz we decided to swap the ROM over to the Virus B which runs at 108MHz and it seems to work flawlessly

https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/virus-b-rom-being-run-as-vsti/

 

Another realtime demo:
https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/sample-perfect-midi-timing-on-an-access-virus-b/

 

BETA NOW AVALIABLE!

https://audiosex.pro/threads/motoro...-now-access-virus-nord-lead-waldorf-mw.59786/

 

I have it working on Mac, was able to find a M4L editor which could Edit most of the parameters for virus C, no luck with the Virus HC as it looks for a system ID of the device and fails.